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The early production of temporal-aspectual features in English-speaking children is typically biased; they prefer telic perfective past combinations and atelic imperfective present combinations. Wagner (2009) replicated this finding with adult native English speakers. The current study explored the question of whether such a preference for these prototypes would persist into second language acquisition with Korean speakers. Given that the tense-aspect system is part of semantic universals shared by all languages, it was predicted that Korean speakers would show an influence of such prototypes. Korean speakers indeed judged prototypical temporal-aspectual combinations to be better than non-prototypical ones. Along the lines of Wagner (2009), we argue that the driving force for the preference for prototypes is information processing demands: The prototypes are favored because they are easier to compute and process.

목차

I. Introduction
 II. Background
  2.1. Temporal-Aspectual Prototypes and Non-prototypes
  2.2. Related Previous Study: Wagner 2009
  2.3. Research Question and Predictions
 III. Methodology
  3.1. Participants
  3.2. The Forced-choice Sentence Judgment Task
 IV. Results and Discussion
 V. Conclusion
 References
 Appendix
 Abstract

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• Eunjeong Oh [ Sangmyung University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820